About the book: 1960 / Fairy tale novel by Marietta Shaginyan (Jim Dollar) "Mess-Mend, or Yankees in Petrograd" - a picture of the struggle of fascism with Soviet Russia; the latter is supported by American workers. The main character of the novel is the collective of the proletariat. "Yankee" is a fantastic novel. The characters in this novel commit implausible and impossible actions. The name Jim Dollar is almost unknown to Russian readers. According to his biography, he is an American worker. He had never seen Russia. He knows her only from stories, books, and newspapers. Naturally, his descriptions do not correspond to Russian reality. Hence a number of curious inconsistencies. So, he gives one of his heroines, supposedly in the Russian manner, the name “Katya Ivanovna”. He calls the Moika River “stormy,” etc. Despite its deliberately clumsy form, which at times reaches the point of grotesquery, “Yankee” represents a large, original and deeply interesting work from the field of revolutionary romance.